How was everyone’s holidays? Peaceful and relaxing and surrounded by friends and family, I hope. If you’ll bear with me, this column will be old news by now, but I’d still like to get it out of my system.
Has...
It seems like forever ago, but also like yesterday.
I was sitting in front of the TV watching the White House daily press briefing, as I do quite often, and Sean Spicer was behind the podium, as he always was....
When did you realize your kids were smarter than you?
I don’t remember exactly what I was doing at the time, but I was looking at the computer. Might have been an important news story, might have been a cat...
As anyone with a working pair of ears or eyes is aware, the Trump White House has not been having a good week, or month, actually, you might as well say year. Donald Trump’s entire presidency has been plagued...
I found a half-price sale on-line just before Christmas and ended up buying my husband a Google Home device. It’s basically an electronic brain, I kid you not, and I am completely taken by it.
I’m not usually a sucker...
By my count, as this column is printed, we will be 91 days into the Trump presidency. Considering the number of newsworthy stories that have come out of the White House since the inauguration, doesn’t it seem like a...
Last summer my friend from a
few houses down showed up at my door, wearing a slightly-bashful grin and
something I thought I would never see, at least not on him.
“Do you have nail polish
remover?”...
In a few hours from now I will turn 40. Forty. Years. Old.
While that isn’t as scary a prospect as it used to be, I still find it hard to reconcile that I could possibly be that far out...
While the composition of a cell and the history of the
Revolutionary War are important parts of school curriculum, I would argue that
one of the most important lessons in my son’s high school classes this year has
been the...
Driving home from town two weeks ago, we noticed one of our neighbours was outside starting on his outdoor Christmas display. We slowed down to have a look at what is always a pretty elaborate setup.
“Already?” came the question...